Word: counterpoint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hindemith has developed an idiom which he has perfectly in his grasp. He has not deserted the old and tried elements of tonality and traditional counterpoint; he has rather employed them as the foundations of a clearly successful and effective idiom. He is one of the most vital and influential figures in contemporary music and it is to be hoped that he will continue to make his contact with America a personal as well as musical one. In view of his treatment at the hands of the present regime in Germany, and his prolonged visits to this country, there...
Were singing in counterpoint their undeveloped...
Corporate Counterpoint...
That CBS was out to rival RCA in every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...
...development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...